There is a Living Hope, which brings us together during desperate times, and compels us to engage in the heaviest, darkest, most difficult places.
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According to the apostle Peter, “mission” is not an episodic activity but an everyday identity.
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What does Third's Community hope for itself?
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Peter's vision of Christian community calls us to re-order our lives away from individualism and toward shared life and practices.
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Being a people set apart for God's special purposes of love is a very delicate balance that is only possible through the grace of the gospel.
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One of three videos reflecting on some of the hopes of the Third Church community, as a part of a sermon series on "Living in Hope."
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Through the power of the Spirit, we can even have hope in the midst of the difficulties that seem to pervade the modern world
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Bob & Elaine share their story of reaching out in love to the international student community in Richmond.
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What does it mean for us to be witnesses from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth today, in Richmond, VA?
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On Easter morning we rejoice that Christ's victory over death is also our victory over sin, for through the Spirit we have power to live in Christ.
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The astounding news of Easter is that God has thrown our death spiral into reverse through the resurrection of Jesus.
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At its core, Lust is treating another human being--another child of God--as though they were merely objects available to satisfy our physical passions.
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At its core, Lust is treating another human being as though they were merely objects available to satisfy our physical passions. Our culture makes a virtue out of almost unfettered sexual desire, yet we are still loathe to talk about (or admit personally) the damage it does to both personal and community relationships.
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While God’s anger is always driven by love, our anger is nearly always driven by selfish desire. Through Jesus Christ, God seeks to heal our anger and make it his kind of anger, an anger driven by love.
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The deadly sin of anger is unusual in that it is the only one of the Seven that is also an attribute of God. But while God’s anger is always driven by love, our anger is nearly always driven by selfish desire. This Sunday, Corey Widmer continues the series Seven: Finding Freedom from the Darkness Within.
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Talks from Nan Clarke, Sarah Widmer, and otehrs on the ups and downs of living in Christian community from our Spring Women's Brunch
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The great medieval poet, Dante, observed, "Envy is the love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs." Paul's stirring words to the Philippians points us to the hope that in Christ we can learn to move from envy to contentment.
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Envy has been called "the silent sin" because we seldom admit whom and what we envy. When it is full-blown, Envy is a desire that our neighbor actually lose his or her advantage or possession, while we gain it, instead.
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Gluttony is an intensified appetite for things that do not ultimately satisfy. Thus, the ancients condemned gluttony not because of what it does to the body, but what it does to the soul.
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Gluttony could be defined as an excessive appetite for food, drink or pleasure in order to keep God at bay. Therefore, the ancients condemned gluttony and included it on the list of Seven not because of what it does to the body, but what it does to the soul.
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